Hello,
At the outset, I really appreciate this opportunity.
Please find a brief of my profile:
1. Educational background: I have a Mechanical Engg. degree from VTU, India (the university is among the best know universities in the India). My aggregate over the 4 years stands at 65%.
2. Work experience: I have roughly 74 months' work experience in Product design and product documentation. The division of experience has been roughly 50 to 50, with my present role being in documentation for a company that develops software and hardware network-security appliances. I've worked in a number of domains, given the nature of my job. I also have completed a 3 month internship in Marketing for a software company that develops software in the travel domain, for the exposure.
3. GMAT: I'm taking the GMAT this month and hope to achieve a score between 670 and 750.
4. My target schools: Duke (Fuqua), Yale SOM, Chicago GSB, Purdue (Krannert), Indiana (Kelley), Ohio (Fisher) Cornell (Johnson), MIT (Sloan), Michigan (Ross).
5. Reasons for these choices: Good funding options, career switch into marketing, specifically brand or product management, post-MBA. I would like to keep my options about Entrepreneurship open.
6. Extra curricular activities and community service: Member of the STC India chapter; take part in planting trees in and around my city; worked with autistic children for a period of 1 month; have also assisted with research and writing for two articles published in the Lancet - a leading medical journal; take part in CSR initiatives within the organization
Please let me know your opinion.
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